I would avoid dad completely, since that is gendered. Having a bad parent sucks, and if you don't want to acknowledge her as a parent you shouldn't. But if you must acknowledge, I'd also avoid the genderless "parent". It feels like how people call trans women with she/her pronouns "they" as a way to deny gender. Maybe using the more formal "mother" to imply distance?
retrozombi
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Blue. But I aspire to purple. I look good in purple so
The ability of my therapist to keep on top of my bullshit is astonishing. He'll mention something from the previous session and ask how that's going, and I'm "What? That? Oh yeah..."
Loved Red Dwarf when I discovered it. Haven't revisited recently, but I still think about it all the time.
If you're into old sci-fi films, you could track down a copy of "Aelita, the Queen of Mars" from 1924. Cool visuals, and a rather pointed treatment of the working class as units to be deployed. Sadly, the spiders from the book weren't included